Explains reasons behind salary delays
KOHIMA, MAY 12 (MExN): The Directorate of School Education (DoSE) today said that it is trying to bring in transparency in disbursement of salaries and a system where funds are monitored properly. While stating that the system is in its initial stage, all the employees of the department have been requested to bear with the delays.
Principal Director of School Education, in a press release, said that “once the problems are resolved, the system is put in place and information required are updated, all such delays will be curbed.”
The Principal Director informed that placement of fund for the current Financial Year 2022-23 was issued by the Finance Department on April 11 and subsequently the sub-allocation was prepared by the Directorate and submitted to the Finance Department on April 14. The same was authenticated and endorsed by the Directorate of Treasuries and Accounts on April 20 for circulation to the all the concerned treasury offices.
However, he explained that with the introduction of the Personal Information Management System (PIMS)/ ePay Bill system, the Directorate has been updating the information required by the P&AR Department in their interface.
“And with most of the employees being migrated to the PIMS, the Finance Department issued an OM dated, November 16 2021 for introduction of payment of salaries and wages via ePay Bill system effective from November 2021 but, due to glitches/requirement of documents/records, the system was relaxed till the remuneration of February 2022 to be drawn in March 2022, which had already been paid,” the directorate said.
It clarified that, the Directorate staff have been working overtime in co-ordination with the Finance Department, P&AR Department and the Directorate of Treasuries and Accounts so that salaries were released on time as the ePay Bill system was rolled in March 2022. However it stated that there were some problems in pay items like SCRLA in the ’93 ROP resolved by the P&AR on May 7, 2022.
Further it informed that due to the OM of the P&AR Department dated June 6 2016, on ban of appointment on Adhoc/Contract basis, the records/documents of such criteria could not be updated. The same has been compiled and forwarded to the government, is and now awaiting decision. “Till such time their salaries are withheld,” the department said.
It meanwhile said that the last six SDEO establishments out of the eleven newly created establishments, who had been bifurcated from their parent establishments, could not be updated in the PIMS for want of SGV code from the NSDL, Mumbai. This will be completed once the code is received and their salaries will be released accordingly, it said.
The department also explained that due to poor internet connectivity in areas like Kiphire, Tuensang and Mon the problem of uploading details in the portal takes time. Hence, only 10 or 15 employees can be updated in a day. For the other regular employees, with the help of the P&AR Department, technical glitches are being cleared, and for those already cleared, salary is being released on fast track mode, it informed.
